Archaeological Site of Troy

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The Archaeological Site of Troy is the ancient city in northwestern Turkey famed from Homeric epics and renowned for its multi-layered ruins that reveal over 4,000 years of continuous human settlement and history.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city
archaeological site
alsoKnownAs Hisarlik NERFINISHED
Ilion NERFINISHED
Troia NERFINISHED
Troy NERFINISHED
associatedWork Iliad NERFINISHED
Odyssey NERFINISHED
country Republic of Turkey NERFINISHED
earliestOccupationDate circa 3000 BCE
excavatedBy Carl Blegen NERFINISHED
Heinrich Schliemann NERFINISHED
Manfred Korfmann NERFINISHED
Wilhelm Dörpfeld NERFINISHED
famousFor appearance in Homeric epics
association with the Trojan War
multi-layered archaeological remains
governingBody Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism NERFINISHED
hasArchaeologicalFeature Roman theater
bouleuterion
city walls
defensive ditches
fortifications
gates
residential buildings
sanctuaries
hasCoordinateLatitude 39.957
hasCoordinateLongitude 26.238
hasCulturalAssociation Anatolia NERFINISHED
Ancient Greece NERFINISHED
Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED
Hittite civilization NERFINISHED
Roman Empire NERFINISHED
hasDurationOfOccupation over 4000 years
hasHeritageStatus UNESCO World Heritage Site NERFINISHED
hasMuseum Troy Museum NERFINISHED
hasNumberOfSettlementLayers at least 9 major layers
hasPeriod Bronze Age
Byzantine period
Hellenistic period NERFINISHED
Iron Age NERFINISHED
Roman period
hasProtectionStatus archaeological conservation area
hasTourismType archaeological tourism
cultural tourism
inscriptionLanguageEvidence Greek
Latin
Luwian NERFINISHED
isSubjectOf Homeric scholarship
Trojan War studies
classical archaeology research
locatedIn Turkey
northwestern Turkey
Çanakkale Province NERFINISHED
locatedNear Aegean Sea NERFINISHED
Dardanelles NERFINISHED
nearSettlement Tevfikiye NERFINISHED
partOf Troad region NERFINISHED
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria (ii)
(iii)
(vi)
UNESCOWorldHeritageListingYear 1998
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteId 849

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Çanakkale Province hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite Archaeological Site of Troy
Hisarlik heritageDesignation Archaeological Site of Troy
Hisarlik partOf Archaeological Site of Troy
this entity surface form: Archaeological Site of Troy (UNESCO)
Troad UNESCORelation Archaeological Site of Troy
this entity surface form: Troy UNESCO World Heritage Site